LOCKING BIOS or HARD drive

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• Tecra A8-104 requires no password BIOS or HARD drive

  Hi, I recorded the two Bios and hard drive goes into security help Toshiba but when starting the system he does not ask me for any of them.

  No idea why?

  Maybe you did something wrong. Try again using Toshiba password utility. You can find when you start TOSHIBA Help Secure.

• UPDATE THE BIOS AND HARD DRIVE

  Hi, I'm going to do a clean install of win. 7 home Premium and I would like to upgrade the Bios and installing a hard drive SSD 120 GB and 2 GB of ram.

  Desktop PC

  5226Model #: CQ5226UK
  Product #: VS273AA-ABU
  Serial No.:[personal information deleted]
  Software Build #: 94WEv6PrA3
  Service ID #: 111-709
  PCBRAND: Presario

  3200AAJS-60M0A0 320 GB WD HARD DRIVE

  Intel pentium dual core 2.6

  PC built Sept 2009

  I looked at the Hp site but could not find an update for my bios.  Mobo is Foxconn Eton 1.0 and the Bios is FRIEND 5.05 25.09.2009

  A scan utility (Bios Agent) indicates that there is an update, but they require payment for flashing the bios.  In case I have some concerns, and many would prefer to download Hp or Foxconn.  I looked on the sites Web from Foxconn and FRIEND, but they require a lot & a lot of information that I don't have and don't know where to find them. I was hoping someone might have the same PC to give me information.

  Also to install the disk SSD drive I brobably would need an adapter to allow the reader to 2.5 inches to fit into the drive 3.5 "bracket. Apart from this, the connectors on the SSD drives all seem to be the same.  is this correct please or will it take a SSD and a specific to my PC case and my existing hard drive adapter.

  Thank you

  Hi thanks for your help, advice and information: my PC was purchased in January 2009 is a little more than 4 years.  The upgrade would cost 130 pounds. I could not buy a decent PC with 4 GB ram and an SSD for under £500.   I do not download music or movies, or make more than a small base video editing so I'm sure that with these improvements, there will be more than enough for me.

  One thing doesn't bother me.  It seems that when buying a PC Bios updates are available for the first 2/3 years, but not thereafter.  It would not have occurred to me to look for an update of the bios, during this period just simply because I thought that they were issued only when necessary to take into account improvements and new technologies so thanks for that. you live & learn.

  I'm trying to teach me the 'nuts & bolts' repair and fix PC problems and I guess that's the main use for my PC.  Experiment with a new £500 Pc would scare me to death.

  I'm on Linux Ubuntu 13.1 without any problems on my PC Dell 9 years and XP Pro on my HP Pavilion 13, so maybe I can do my Compaq last a little longer.

  Once again thank you very much.  its part of the process of learning.  see you soon

• N200 bios flashes-> hard drive not found

  I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 0769.
  I downloaded the upgrade of the bios on the Lenovo site. The laptop stood awake for a few minutes after the launch and completion of lightning with explore does not, including the flash window is complete, normally closed.
  When he started upward again, I got normal screens, finally windows XP startup screen showed, but as soon as the blue line arrived in the second or third place, the computer go to the black screen asking for a normal boot, safe mode or the configuration was last started. All these options have led to a blue error screen that was shown for only a half second that I couldn't even read the error number, then all reeboted again and I got stüch with the display of black selection again.
  When I tried to repair windows XP CD (R key), he said that I have not installed hard drives. I got the same message when I tried to reinstall XP. The bios displays the installed drive. I also tried resetting the bios, no change. I found the article on the community of lenovo on how to reset the cmos, but it seemed that I had failed, either. Anyone alse said his drive Id changed to another thing and causet problem, but does not list how to fix that.
  I don't know what else to do. I need the data on the laptop ASAP and I want to say.

  Someone on FixYa said I need to remove the cmos battery and this is supposed to be under the keyboard. I removed the keyboard, but can't seem to find the battery. Is anyone please tell me where it is? I saw all the batteries in the world and I can not find even when it is... or maybe I have gist never seen one like this yet or what?

  BIG MISTAKE! Version 3.03 of bios is not the best for this model, especially if only a few months (like mine), has made in my case 3.03 caused trouble on the events of interruption-recovery repeatedly crashes on the post. Actually recovered 3.05 bios original and questions solved all this. Later, I will put the download link. You don't need to worry about bsod, simply change the sata to ide on bios mode and windows will go up. (the provided vista can assume the two, xp requires a change of driver before)

• Tecra S1 - Bios does not detect HARD drive

  Hi, first time poster, long drive date.

  I have a friends laptop with me an old S1, its hard drive has failed. (Even tried it on my USB adapter to diagnose).

  I had another IDE HDD which works like a dream.
  I can even install Windows up to a point with the exception of when the computer wants to do the first restart of the second phase of the installation. (Not on CD).

  In the bios the HARD drive is not detected a 0 MB for the read command.
  I tested the USB HARD drive. So works perfectly. will try another hard drive there tomorrow see what is happening.

  I tried the recovery CD aswell. But she also can not detect the hard drive.
  Finally, I even reflashed the Bios even if it was the last version 2.50.
  Still did not change.

  If I'm just at a loss here. Tomorrow I'll do the following.

  Try a 3rd HDD IDE into the machine.

  Opening of the case and see if I can find the CMOS battery to replace or remove for a minute or 2 to see what is happening.
  Is obviously a problem of bios of the HARD drive is detected. Has anyone ever encountered this before?

  Windows / ERD Commander / Partition Magic 8 all finding the end hard drive.
  Thanks for listening to my dribble that I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall being close.

  Kind regards

  Dave

  What drive did you use and what size it it?
  I think that not all HARD drive would be compatible because of the 28-bit LBA.

  The 28-bit LBA supports hard disks up to 128GB and if the IDE controller supports only 28-bit LBA then it may happen that more large drives would not be recognized by the BIOS.

• Windows 7 and bios sees not the hard drive, but when I connect the hard drive to the USB with an adapter, I see directories and files

  Please, I need pc

  Original title: windows 7 and bios does not see the hard drive. but when I connect the hard drive to the USB with an adapter, I see directories and files... Ive a hp Pavilion, what to do?

  Check the BIOS for hard drive setting.

  Make sure that you do not connect the drive to a SATA/RAID port.

  Old IDE drives - check the jumper on the drive (use "Cable Select" as a starting point), the BIOS must also be set in legacy/compatibility/IDE mode. Note: If you currently use the AHCI mode, then switch to IDE mode may cause Windows to boot.

  J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com

• Dell hard drive password

  I just got a Dell Optiplex 7010 lock upwards with a HARD drive password

  Yesterday, the system was very good and only used a standard user password. 24 hours later, the system is locked with the HARD drive password. Only one user has accessed the system and she do not have the skills to set up a HARD drive password.

  Anyone know of all instances of a spontaneously put password? to the best of my knowledge the computer was not yet connected to the internet.

  Only thing I found is some website that wants to charge me $40 to unlock the HARD drive.

  Any thoughts?

  I had the same problem by doing an upgrade of system on my beloved of Vostro 200 (2008) when I had an AC power outage during the generation.  HARD drive has been locked, bios is now locked, disc replacement hard now brick also.   Fortunately full backups, so it's time to buy a new desktop machine, but what a waste of a good PC!  My data are so safe that even I can not get it!    Please point out that...

  "A NEW HARD DISK WILL INHERIT THE OLD HARD DRIVE PROBLEMS."

  Thank you!

  -Thompson

• HARD drive does not detect the Tecra R940-1JG

  Hello

  I had double partition on the HDD for win7 pro and Win 10, but after update Win 10 that he was unable to start.

  I disconnected the drive and connected to my office and managed to recover the data.
  It works find in desktop, but it does not detect my Toshiba Tecra.

  I had an another 120 GB and tested in my Toshiba laptop and it works and detects ok.

  I change the settings of UEFI and AHCI but no joy.

  HARD drive is seen by BIOS?
  HARD drive appears on the first page of the BIOS?

• Satellite L10-144 - cannot boot from a hard drive

  Hello.

  Sorry for my English because I'm french. I have a problem with a tip on this computer. I installed windows xp on my hard drive, but the computer does not start on that hard drive. If I want to boot to the hard drive I have to press F12 and select the hard disk and after loading windows.
  In the bios the hard drive is first but the hard drive does not start automatically.

  Can you help me please?

  Thank you very much.

  Hi Demilego,

  Really strange what s... Normally, the computer should boot from the HARD disk automatically.

  In your case I check the BIOS and load the default settings.
  It work?

• Satellite A100 - 551 (PSAA2E) - new HARD drive freeze computer

  Hello

  Sorry for my bad English, I'm french.

  I have a Satellite A100-551 and original 80 GB SATA HARD disk is dead. It works enough, but there are a lot of mistakes on its surface and the pc go very slow!
  So, I buy another drive.
  This one: [samsung 250 GB | http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Composants/showdetl.cfm?product_id=422226&option=1]

  I have install on the pc but when I start the pc freeze.
  At startup, there is a moment where a normal message saying that I can access the F2 BIOS with a progressbar for loading.

  The freezing of progressbar and nothing else has add.
  If I press F2 nothing adds.
  I can't do nothing.

  Is it possible to get started with my new HARD drive?

  Is there some hard drive not recommended?

  Thanks for your replies.

  Strange, but perhaps the new HARD drive is defective or not compatible with your laptop.
  Have you tested the new HARD drive in a laptop or in an external HARD drive enclosure? It work?

  You can go into the BIOS without HARD drive?
  Check it!

  In your case I would use check the HARD drive in another laptop first, and then maybe you should try another of your laptop HARD drive.

  Good luck!

• HARD drive password prompt - Satellite 2450-101

  Hello everyone!...

  I am a new user and would like to know if anyone has any suggestions of how I can fix my computer problem?

  I have a laptop Toshiba Satellite 2450-101 that I recently brought a new battery and the adapter because due to the machine is not used for several months, everything was fine for a few hours!... the screen became 'blue' and I restarted the program, but then, I proceeded to get an error message (forgive me, because I don't remember exactly what he said!) who said something about Realteck? and Ethernet cable error and then prompted me to insert system disk?

  Unfortunately after pressing enter the same message kept in view, finally I decided to used the drive recovery to re - start the computer but all I get now is the ' screen of welcome-followed by long pause, followed by a black screen that ask to ceiling "HDD password?

  Does anyone know if it is a fixable problem?

  Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!
  I have

  Hello

  Looks like your HARD drive is locked using a HARD drive password.
  I put t know why this password is necessary but if you don t know this password, then your HARD drive is no longer available and you will need to buy a new one.

  Eventually it s simply a matter of HARD drive and, therefore, the laptop crashed before this HARD drive password appeared so I think that you need a new HARD drive.

  Good bye

• Question about password on the new Satellite A105 HARD drive

  I am the owner of a Satellite A105 and the hard drive was failing. I got a new hard drive but before I gave up on the current one I decided to wipe it clean and a few tools to see if it was a way to recover.

  Well, when wiping clean it restarts and then he showed me a message saying "password type of HARD drive internal" or something similar. I do not know the password so I can't use the hard disk more (or is there a way to reset the password?), but before you install the new hard drive I want to know if there could be a problem installing the new hard drive in the laptop without knowing the previous password.

  I mean, it locks the new hard drive or is it completely independent of the installed hard drive? The one I have is brand new, and I want to know if I plug it in and from the laptop are all I have to do?

  Hello

  If the HARD drive password has been activated and you don t usually know this password then the HARD drive is locked and can no longer be used.
  It s simply not accessible and it s not possible to remove this password.

  > I want to know if there could be a problem installing the new hard drive in the laptop without knowing the previous password. I mean, it locks the new hard drive or is it completely independent of the installed hard drive?
  I think that he should t be any problem with a new HARD drive.
  As I said the password is stored in the sector specials on the HARD drive. The old password should not exist on the new HARD drive (if the password has not been set).

  Best regards

• L50-B-11J satellite does not recognize the HARD drive connected by USB 3.0

  Hello

  I recently bought a new laptop and install a new legal copy of windows pro 8.1.

  The problem that arises is actually a USB 3.0 port.
  Also, I have a drive external hard support standard USB 2.0 and 3.0.

  When I plug-in the hard drive into a USB 2.0 or any USB 3.0 port (two port supports USB 3.0 is disabled in the BIOS) fine, hard drive is recognized and I can access.

  But, when I plug-in the hard disk into a USB 3.0 port (two port supports USB 3.0 is active in the BIOS) Windows does not recognize it and I can't access it.

  The hard disk led flashes, so it has the power, but does not appear in the devices or Device Manager.
  My opinion is that the problem may be with the drivers for USB, but Toshiba is supported for driver for USB 3.0 for Windows 8.1.

  Then can someone suggest me what to do?

  Laptop: Satellite L50-B-11J
  USB ports: 1xUSB 2.0 port, 2xUSB 3.0 port
  Operating system: Windows Pro 8.1
  USB 3.0 driver: Intel (r) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Control - 0100 (Microsoft)
  External hard drive: support USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 standard

  Intel USB 3.0 driver is part of the 8.1 Windows System... This is not supplied by Toshiba.

  Windows 7 contains no such USB 3.0 driver and so you can download driver Intel USB 3.0 page of the Toshiba driver as well as the Intel download site.

  By the way: try to disable the functionality of sleep & Charge and check how the HARD drive would work.

• Equium A110-233: HDD - no HARD drive boot failure

  My Toshiba Satellite A110-233 decided its had enough. Basically when you switch on you get the Toshiba first screen with the options to press F2 or F12. When you select one of these it bascially says please wait and goes no further. We have F2 (twice) and a message pops up saying that it was not a hard drive.

  When you view the list of devices in the Bios the hard drive does not appear. We can't even use the recovery disc you need to press F12, that we cannot do. Laptop is about six months. To be honest, we really don't care about information stored on it because most of our documents, photos etc are on the main PC.

  We do not know what to do. Can someone advise/help?

  Hello

  Chances are that your drive HARD must be changed. Bring it to your ASP and ask them to test it. They'll probably change the HARD drive and reinstall OS then it will be like new. Good luck and have a nice day.

• LW46OUA #ABA: hard drive error. (EFO) Help

  I turned my computer while it froze so I turned it back so he showed this: Boot Device not found please install an operating system on your hard drive. Hard drive - (3F0)
  I ran a Test of 'start-up' and he said 'Hard Disk not exist.' I also ran the BIOS "Main hard drive self test" and he also said "hard disk not exist.
  Help, please!

  Ouch.  This error usually indicates that the hard drive has failed.  I would start by replacing the hard drive and see if the PC can recognize the new drive.  Without doing anything for the current except take out drive, then try to run the recovery on the new disk drive.  I can't find the info on LW46OUA #ABA, perhaps a different model number?